Tagged Questions

The 'not-an-answer' tag should be used when you post a question about answers to questions, that are really not answers to the question that was asked. For example, if you flagged an answer as not an answer, and it was rejected by a moderator, and you post a question about it on meta, you should ...

I noticed the day after I posted a comment to a question that I accidentally posted it as an answer. After down-voting an answer, the popup pointed out that it would be useful to tell the reason for ...

I was reluctant to write another "why was this disputed" question, but I really think this one is a mistake, and I'd like to understand what happened with it. I flagged this answer as NaA, but it was ...

Since I recently gained 20k privileges, I wanted to make sure that I use my new found internet "powers" productively.
After spending some time searching MSO, MSE, and the Help Center, I haven't found ...

I can remember one of my Not an Answer flags was disputed once, then I did read about answer flags and learned that an answer may be allowed to stay unless it clearly isn't constructive, on-topic or ...

I just came across this Review in the First-Post Queue.
It is obvious that it is not an Answer, but could it be considered spam? There are a lot of Posts which seek styling help and include a link to ...

A few days back I flagged the below post as it's not an answer to the question. Instead the user was posting his own problem in the answer box.
Android IAB Error RPC:S-7 AEC-0
The good thing is that ...

Been reading a suggested wording change to the "not an answer" flag and related meta discussions (there are a lot).
It's obvious that there are two camps on this issue, each with a lot of voices. One ...

Every once in a while, which some regularity, somebody on SO completely misreads a question (or is just generally confused or insane or on drugs, or whatever) and posts an answer that has absolutely ...

I reviewed this answer in the first posts queue about 21 hours ago.
I was wondering to myself why the answer was still undeleted, and my flag of Not An Answer on it is still showing as "active". It ...

http://stackoverflow.com/a/317065/621316
It is 100% a "link-only answer", which unless I'm mistaken are to be deleted according to the rules. What should I do when coming across such an "answer"? I ...

I saw an answer (screenshot) which contains the information needed to solve the problem stated in the question, but it is not addressing the OP's question, or trying to phrase his answer as such. It ...

This audit is a great example of what not to flag as NAA, since it really has a decent chance of being some sort of answer. (I don't know if it's correct, of course, but it even has a passing relation ...

I had already many times flagged answers as not an answer which were declined as every answer is an answer, doesn't matter how bad they are.(Discussed multiple times on this meta)
Now I'm intended to ...

So I've tried my hardest to narrow flags down and sometimes it's splitting hairs. But this one really seems to be tricky. It showed up in the Late Answers queue and it took me a few minutes of reading ...

Convert To Edit no longer works on posts in the moderator queue that have comments, even when that post is 'expanded' in the moderator view.
I think this is broken because of the design change, but I ...

I flagged an 'answer' as Not-An-Answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/27492932/682404 but a moderator declined my flag (even though other readers have agreed with my note under the answer that it's ...

From what I understand, it takes 1 NAA flag to have that post go into the Low Quality Queue and/or Mod Queue.
From there, it needs to get 6 recommended deletes for it to be deleted or 1 delete vote ...

So I got this answer in the Late Answers review queue. To me this looks like a Thanking the posters answer, as described in When to flag an answer as “it is not an answer”? so I flagged it as not an ...

I flagged these 2 answers as not an answer. The flag marked as helpful, but the answers are not deleted:
Oracle OCI array fetch of simple data types?
This is essentially not an answer. It is also a ...

I flagged this answer (10K) recently, and it should probably be a comment. But my flag was disputed. I know it was disputed, because some says "Recommend deletion" and others says "Looks Ok". That's ...

Several days ago I reviewed this answer http://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/5484150 from LQP. It was decided 50/50 as OK/Recommend for deletion by reviewers, so it was left intact.
For ...

I was reviewing this first post and flagged it as 'not an answer' as it did not appear to answer the original question.
The flag appear as 'disputed' in my 'flagged posts' summary " not an answer – ...